All of a sudden it has a different theming apart from the rest of the OS. I've managed to have the same colors I use elsewhere, and I've found that there's this "--style" option, but apparently it doesn't work for me (well, doesn't work specifically with krita under openbox, but works with other apps on openbox, and works with krita on KDE). I'm not under KDE, but openbox, Debian "testing", default KDE and Calligra/Krita packages.

Is there any workaround, or now we got to have it with the oxygen style?



Possibly just some sort of bug/config mess on my system that won't be easily reproduced elsewhere...

Well, I can explain this for you... Krita checks whether it's running in a KDE session or not. If not, we select either the Oxygen style if it's available or else the Plastique style. This is done because when running in Windows, Unity or Gnome, the default style is completely broken, and in fact, of all the styles I tested, only Plastique and Oxygen work well. The Vista, XP or GTK styles don't handle dark color schemes at all correctly. This gave so many bug reports that I opted for this solution.

Thanks for the explanation. It must be really hard to have to deal with making an application work in so many places. I wonder if someday in our lifetimes there will be some universal standard for GUI rendering/theming, like HTML5 or something. Just saw that you proposed plastique as the non-KDE default/only choice, I'm hoping it gets approved.